I wouldn’t be shocked if governor Kemp and some other goobers counter by recruiting Paula Deen to produce a new show in Georgia. “Paula Deen’s Plantation cooking” “It’s buttery good”
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Thank you for not saying “squashed”. That’s what you do to a pumpkin.
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I think the dominant idea is that you can’t shoot a movie called “Emancipation” in georgia right now.
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People respond to injustices in various ways, and sometimes, in the moment, it can be difficult to determine the exact right approach to force change, even as we agree the status quo in Georgia, with the passage of this bill, is unacceptable.
I don’t fault those who choose to boycott as an expression of their outrage because I believe it’s justified by the state’s actions, though I’m not yet certain of its effectiveness and recognize the pain it may cause to bystanders. The key is to focus on the reasons for the boycott and not on the boycott itself. We should constantly hammer publically on the provisions in the bill that justify our outrage, because I doubt the general public is aware of what’s in the bill.
Registering and educating voters, as Stacy Abrams is doing is essential and must be done, but the fact remains the Georgia legislature has usurped power from the counties to adjudicate close elections, reasonable to assume, corruptly. That’s an uncomfortable situation if you’re a Democrat or just believe in democracy.
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Good for you, Will. Thank you.
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He can’t do both? The thing republicans care about most is money which equals power. So if you want to punish or influence them you have to take it away. Nothing else works as well. Nothing.
I fail to see how taking good jobs away from production crews who are overwhelmingly based in the blue parts of the state will create even the slightest pressure on Republican officials to make any changes whatsoever to their dumb law. A boycott does not hurt their bottom lines in the slightest.
I fail to see how focusing only on voter turnout for the 2022 election prevents Georgia republicans from doing more of this until then and making it harder and harder.
When you are dealing with kids and animals the response to bad behavior has to be immediate or it will have no effect. You can’t go to your dog and say “bad dog for chewing the couch yesterday”.
Who said anything about “focusing only on voter turnout”? I would be just fine with boycotts that actually hurt the people who enacted this voter suppression statute. That does not, so far as I am aware, include any titans of the Georgia film industry.
The NCAA is stepping up for transgender rights:
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Your going to have to think on more than one level.
For one, some of the bigger donors are pulling away because of all the boycotts. Really, I shouldn’t have to explain some of this to you. It’s not point A to point B, it’s point A to point Z.
Explain it to Stacey Abrams then. I’m sure you’ll be able to show her the error of her ways. 
What I like about boycotts: they are a thumb in the eye of the authoritarians. The GA GOP thought it was showing the world that they had the power to do whatever they wanted to. Sadly, they can’t stop a boycott, and they can’t stop the headlines and news reports about a boycott.
I expect them to get good and angry and do something stupid or embarrassing. Dare I hope that they announce big tax incentives for Kirk Cameron to come to GA and film Left Behind 3D?
Stacy Abrams will do her thing, very well. Other opponents of the GA legislation will announce boycotts, or fund voter registration and education efforts, or fund legal challenges, or set up food and snack stations near voting sites, or whatever. They won’t negate each other.
Will these boycotts affect production crews? Yes, they will be forced to move to where the filming takes place.
There will be residents who will no longer get the low-end, unskilled or low skilled jobs associated with the production. These people won’t move because they have no guarantee of employment (unlike skilled members of production crews).
But the big losers will be the interests behind the tax incentive inticements: hotels, caterers, equipment rental, limousine services, electricians, plumbers and fitters, tourism, etc… These business interests are losing a market and they will not be happy about that in the least. They will turn against Republicans for killing their golden egg laying goose.
Remember, the whole idea behind a Republican government incentivizing through tax breaks is that it will be good for business. Well, the businesses that benefited are now seeing business evaporate.
Boycotts are a crude tool and they don’t always (more like rarely) work. But in this instance, the fallout will be greatest on entrenched capital who were significant beneficiaries of these productions. Businesses are seeing declining revenue projections and know the precise cause. Kemp and co. are going to go through a hell of a year and the GA Republican Party is going to have serious fund raising problems in 2021.
Any corpo who truly wants to put their company’s money where their mouth is, should declare Election Day a company-wide holiday. If it’s too hard to shut down the assembly line or ground the airplanes, then stagger the holiday over what early voting days remain.
Just so long as Georgia voters know that this is in response to the law the GOP passed.
The boycott pains everybody: The law pains blue voters. So no pressure on the GA GQP to change it. It wasn’t hurting their voters or donors.
Better response from Stacy Abrams would be that this is painful but the legislature needs to repeal this racist law now.
Or you could explain it to all those who will lose even more voting rights in the next 1 1/2 because the republicans never had a reason not to.
That’s right, you definitely know better than Stacey Abrams.